Phillips de peury music sale.
dating back to 1796, esteemed auction house auctions off donna summer, bjork, beatles, and more. via nyt [RK]
Picasso not recession proof.
Christie’s Modern Art Sale Falls Short via wjs [RK]
Design Alchemy: Recycled Dumpsters into Rooftop Pools – Huh?
Some people recycle their trash. Others recycle their trash dumpsters.
David Bell, a developer and president of Macro-Sea, explains his use of garbage dumpsters to create a private rooftop pool and club in the middle of downtown Brooklyn. The idea… was not to create an exclusive party destination but to experiment with underused space and materials, repurposing them with urban renewal in mind. See for yourself:
I.D. Annual review 09.
June 25 – August 21, New York. I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review 2009 at Material ConneXion.
Budget over beauty.
Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic for the New York Times, expresses an opinion we agree with.
above: a 2006 version of frank gehry’s design for the nets arena and atlantic yards in brooklyn.
above: the new design for the nets arena by ellerbe becket, an architectural firm based in kansas city.
The decision to scrap a Frank Gehry design takes away an opportunity to build a significant structure in Brooklyn for Nets basketball, is viewed as a major blow to architecture and the public trust.
“Like all great architecture, it challenged our assumptions of what a building of its type can do.” “Clearly, the city would be better off with nothing.” Buildings do last a long, long time.
via curated magazine & RT @curbed
Gehry out. Barclays center.
Frank Gehry out as the architect for the Barclays Center, an exotic, $1 billion glass-walled arena. In is Ellerbe Becket, an architectural firm based in Kansas City, Mo., with $800 million arena. Well, $200M is $200M. We know it won’t look the same. via nyt [PR]
There goes skyline.
Manhattan skyline remains (not anymore ) signage free.
[via a/n blog]Horizonless manhattan.
I love roller coasters. Especially the very first huge plunge. This would be a good ride.
According to the designers:
“They’re intended to be seen at those same places, putting the viewer simultaneously above the city and in it where she stands, both looking down and looking forward…The projection begins with a three-dimensional representation of the immediate environment. Close buildings are represented normally, and the viewer himself is shown in the third person, exactly where she stands. As the model bends from sideways to top-down in a smooth join, more distant parts of the city are revealed in plan view. The projection connects the viewer’s local environment to remote destinations normally out of sight.”
Frank Lloyd Wright. From within outward.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum celebrates the golden anniversary of its landmark building with the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. May 15 – August 23, 2009. New York. via archicentral [PR]
New York City 2259.
above: Procedural uses CityEngine computer software to envision New York City in 250 years, inspired by
The Fifth Element.
above: fifth element cityscape
above: fifth element cityscape
above: fifth element cityscape
Of interest is the prediction of lower water level. Where does that come from?
[via archidose]